Homemade Butterfingers {Mad Scientist Baker}

That was in a real email from a real reader. First of all, I love that she called me a mad scientist. Secondly, I loved her for adding -ish to the end of Mad Scientist to make an adjective used to describe me. I am neither confirming nor denying these accusations, however this recipe may just push me over the edge in your mind.

I can’t remember when I actually heard about this uber-cool thing you could do with candy corn to make it taste good better. Sometimes I see an idea and tuck it away like this summer when this recipe came across my Pinterest boards. I pinned then forgot about it- because really what happens to the gobs and gobs of leftover candy corn on November 1st? Am I the only person who looks for candy corn in November to make turkey cookies? Because it is impossible to find candy corn after October 31st. Go ahead; try it. I’m going to ignore that little thought that the stuff is just packed away for a year and returned to the store shelves 300 days later.

My Thanksgiving turkey cookies came very close to not being made last year and I think I died a little inside when I paid $1.99 for a teeny tiny pack of candy corn the day before the festivities. But how could I look my husband in the eye on Thanksgiving morning knowing that I would not be bringing candy corn-feathered cookies to the table? I digress.

Anyway in order to be prepared this year I think I have bought a bag of candy corn on every trip to the store for the past few weeks. As I stared at the pounds and pounds of candy corn that I have hoarded those mad scientist-ish thoughts came my way. I dumped a half-eaten bag of candy corn into a bowl and threw it in the microwave along with every last drop of peanut butter we had. This is what happened. And it was amazing. And since we are into making up words I Halloween-ified some of them with black colored chocolate and edible eyes, but I made some traditional ones for you too.

My method was a little bit different from the original which calls for 16oz of candy corn and 16 oz of peanut butter. Since making these I found that Kristan from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen made them too. And yeah hers are adorable so check them out.

Homemade Butterfingers

Ingredients:

Directions:

Melt candy corn in the microwave for about 60 seconds. Check and stir returning to microwave for 15 second intervals until completely melted.

Add peanut butter and combine. Return to microwave if necessary to incorporate until creamy.

Pour into a greased 8x8 pan (or whatever pan you like to get the thickness you desire) and let cool about an hour.

Cut candy into desired shape and cover in melted chocolate.

Notes:

I used a circle cutter and black chocolate for some of the candies. To make traditional butterfingers cut into rectangles and cover in milk chocolate.

I made the pops by cutting the circles then returning them to the microwave for about 10 seconds to soften the candy enough to insert the stick. Dip the tip of your lollipop stick in chocolate first before inserting onto the candy and let it harden up for about 15 minutes before continuing to cover the whole pop in chocolate.

If your candy gets too hard to cut just return to the microwave for a few seconds.

I would describe the texture of these as firm and chewy. So while it doesn't have the crisp of a classic Butterfinger the taste is still spot on. It's scary how close the taste is!

This is amazing. I would love to try this, problem is we have NO candy corn in Israel. Its a horrible thing. My mom sends me a small bag of it for our halloween party every year but it is all gone within minutes.
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Scary genius? How about that to describe you??? Wow, this is crazy, yummy, insane. I have to confess, i am personally a little scared of candy corn, but my kids would love me forever if I made these.
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Seriously homemade butterfingers I may actually love you. I want to make some butterfingers I think it's awesome that you made them and I never once thought about making them.
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I am decidedly *not* a fan of candy corn…but adding peanut butter and chocolate? I'm not really sure how you could go wrong! At least now if I somehow find myself with an abundance of it, I'll have some way of getting rid of it! 😀

Um, wow. The only time I've ever made home made butterfingers was in culinary school where it involved lots of heating of sugar to lava-esque consistencies then layering while piping hot on a marble slab. This seems a tad easier.

I was going to comment under your Jello eyeballs and then I kept looking at older posts and came across this one. My youngest has recently discovered Butterfinger (thanks to Bart Simpson's influence) and now I must try this recipe. I also look for candy corn after Halloween to make turkeys AND I am the only girl in my household. I have forgotten how to be a girly girl because I'm forced to look at boy stuff all day. I am a new follower coming from the link at letter 4 blog hop. I would love it if you found me worthy enough to follow back.
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A real great treat-eat. So easy too! The only hard thing for me was finding peanut cups. Peanut butter candy is not that big in the UK though it is getting more hype these days. The US seems to go nuts for the stuff. I found some eventually and I am glad i didk as these were yum.

Your desserts are amazing! I can’t wait to try them all. I can’t figure out which one I want to make first. Thanks for the giveaway because if it hadn’t been for the giveaway I never would have found this site.